On Loving God

In Loving God, Bernard of Clairvaux presents four types of love that Christians experience as they grow in their relationship with God. They move from loving themselves, to loving God for what he gives them, to loving God for himself, and ulltimately to loving purely from within God. As a rejuvenated paraphrase of elderly translations from the original French, this edition captures Bernard's timeless observations in the language of the present.